Disputed quotes — Publilius Syrus
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We should provide in peace what we need in war.
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
There is no penalty attached to a lover's oath.
Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.
He dies twice who perishes by his own hand.
To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
Society in shipwreck is a comfort to all.
Have courage, or cunning, when you deal with an enemy.
Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.
Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.
Even when the wound is healed, the scar remains.
Even when there is no law, there is conscience.
You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.
Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
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